What if there was/is a dna test that tells you when the last time someone inbred in your genetic line?
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September 15th, 2017
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Maybe they could test you and immediately say, 88% chance your parents are siblings. Or, looking at your DNA it seems that somewhere around 230 years back your grandpa was also the father.
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And why would you want to know that? I don’t see how that information helps anyone except for someone trying to figure out the origin of an obscure disease/mutation.
This exists already, GEDmatch can run an analysis using raw data and tell you if your parents are related. No, my parents were not related
Far back I don’t think there is a way to tell or even that it really makes any difference.
@zenvelo someone posted a pic of some hillbillys, and I wonder how far back if ever my bloodline looked like these inbred meth heads….
My great grandmother married her father’s cousin. I know this through genealogical research, and through my great grandmother, who did her best to cover it up.
We did a DNA test, and there was no indication that something like this was detected.
Looking at the science, I doubt this could be done.
My response is in the whiny room.
You will need to have the DNA of many family members analyzed to get a useful answer to this question. I used to work in medical genetics.
I wouldn’t care at all if back in my lineage cousins made an ancestor of mine. Friends of mine are married first cousins. I would hate to know a father raped his daughter and that resulted in a pregnancy, but if it’s 8 generations back I can’t do anything about it.
I would only have to go back to my paternal grandparents. They were second cousins (or something like that) and didn’t know it until after they had been married a few years.
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